total conquest

Chapter 24 Bloody Battle

call!call!call!boom!After the rebels destroyed all the forts in Altdorf, they began to bombard the city walls and the city unscrupulously. This is the appearance of not giving up until all the stones are used up.

Old John took a few teams to rest at the foot of the wall on the right side of the city gate, watching the stones flying overhead from time to time smashing into the city, but he was helpless. Toke asked Old John some questions from time to time, but Benny hadn't Get rid of nightmares.

Time passed slowly amidst the whistling of stones. After an unknown amount of time, the city wall on the left side of the city gate finally couldn't bear the continuous bombardment. A large number of walls on the inner wall began to fall along with the stones. The position of the station had already been blasted out of the gap. With the firepower of the rebels hitting, this section of the city wall could not last long.

"Everyone checks the equipment, the enemy is about to attack!" Old John had a premonition of the enemy's movements based on his experience.

Toke looked curious, "Uncle John, how did you find out?"

"The enemy's tactics are very simple. Break through a section of the city wall, and then cooperate with the siege tower and battering ram to attack in three directions to disperse our guarding forces. They just don't know where they put the main force. Alas, this is really a fierce battle. Benny, don't be so muddled anymore, if you can survive after the fight, think about it slowly."

"Yeah" Bini replied nonchalantly.

Once the more carefree people encounter this kind of unresolved knot, they will fall into it and torture themselves.

"The war has not stopped even after the unification of the empire. Even human beings have different ideas, let alone other races. Once one idea wants to unify another, then peaceful methods can't solve it, and only force is left. So the war will never stop, because only the dead don’t have thoughts anymore.” John glanced at Benny who was thinking, and ignored him, and he will enlighten him when he has time.

When the city wall could no longer hold on, it began to fall in pieces. When the last piece of dilapidated wall was smashed by the catapult, the sound of stone whistling in the air finally stopped, and the siege tower "creaked" replaced it. "Crackling" sound of movement.

"Quick, the musketeers and crossbowmen are in position, waiting for orders."

"The melee troops are ready at the opponent's siege tower, ready to meet the enemy!" The generals on the city wall began to order in an orderly manner.

And the city wall is also busy. At the gap in the city wall, the swordsmen began to push everything that could be pushed to block the gap, even if it could cause even a little hindrance to the rebels.

"The enemy is within range, shoot freely!" The commander on the city wall shouted like sparks from a firecracker, instantly igniting the entire city wall of Altdorf. How lively.

"The cavalry is charging to the gap, be careful" the voice on the wall just fell, and the neighing of a horse came from outside the gap, and a knight in black armor rushed through the obstacles set by the crowd first, and crashed into the crowd. Knock out the first soldier several meters.The person who came was the affairs officer sent by Middenheim, Captain Jones of the Empire, and he really took the lead. After Jones charged, he ignored the crowd at all, and broke up the crowd by riding left and right. The soldiers around him were all swords and shields. I really can't do anything about him.

"Quickly, follow up." Old John was ordered to guard the city gate, but the big hole next to it was really worrying, and there was an officer who was there to stir things up, so Old John had no choice but to leave the others behind and run away with only a group of people. To support, in addition to the halberds and spearmen arranged on the city wall, only Old John's city gate was equipped with long spearmen to restrain the cavalry.

Old John heard the sound of the bullets being hit by the shooters on the city wall getting closer and closer, and he knew something was wrong. Sure enough, several other groups of cavalry from the rebel army rushed in after a while. "It's really a shit stick." John calculated the distance , instinctively fired a shot at Jones, which was supposed to hit him, but Jones' horse suddenly stood up, and the shot only hit the horse's body, causing Jones to fall.Jones, who fell to the ground, rolled away and disappeared, and then a large number of cavalry jumped in.

"Go!" Old John took the lead in charging, and Toke and Beanie followed closely behind with the rest. Fortunately, there are many swords and shields here, and there are many huge stones at the break of the city wall, which restricted the cavalry at once. After the impact, they were surrounded after a while, and the swords and shields formed a shield formation to trap the cavalry in a semicircle. Here, I can’t get in. If I want to go out, I’m blocked by the friendly troops behind me. Old John led a team of spearmen, holding a shield in his left hand, sending it back and forth with his right hand. The swordsmen around who raised their shields were slaughtered.The idea of ​​letting the cavalry attack is good, but the infantry did not keep up, which caused these waves of cavalry to be given away for nothing, and Jones had already taken advantage of the chaos and didn't know where to go, so let you pretend to be B.

When the wave of cavalry broke up and ran away, the siege tower slowly swayed to the edge of the city wall. As the topmost tower gate slowly fell, it was not the melee troops that appeared in the eyes of the defending army, but the crossbowmen.

"Swipe!" "Swipe!" A crossbow shot at such a close range, even a knight in heavy armor would have to be shot through. The city wall guards who didn't react for a moment were shot to the ground layer by layer, and many people were injured in an instant. , When it was time to counterattack, the crossbowmen began to retreat again, and a large number of spearmen and ordinary swordsmen from the rebel army rushed out to fight with the guarding imperial guards.

The rebels at the gap finally arrived. With the big sword covering his body, Old John knew that even a row of musketeers could not stop them.

"Toke, hurry up and report to Marshal Rick, and say that the main force of the enemy has already entered the battle, hurry up, hurry up, Beanie follow me closely" Old John ran to all the shields and swords and shouted loudly

"I want to live and listen to my command! Everyone! Stand up the shield!"

"Roar!" The shield swordsman bowed his left leg forward, straightened his right leg, and made a movement of preparing to start, ready to exert strength at any time.

The two-handed swordsmen of the rebel army didn't know what was going on below. The huge stone ruins blocked their sight, but they were still fearless and rushed in with great momentum.

"Bump!" Seeing the first batch of two-handed swordsmen falling from the ruins, Old John gave an order, and all the shielded swordsmen slammed forward against their shields.The rebels were stunned as soon as they got hit, and before they could react, they heard another order:
"prick!"

The swords of the swordsmen aimed at the gap between the shields and inserted them in!This group of two-handed swordsmen died really uselessly, giving away their heads and experience.But the group of swordsmen behind them are not stupid, they exerted their strength immediately, the two-handed swords of the giant swordsmen really slashed at the same time with the shield, without any effort at all, and the shield and sword, which were so brave just now, were just as tough. It was far away. After a few moves, the shield and sword lay on the ground, and there were more and more two-handed swordsmen. It seemed that the main force of the rebel army, the giant swordsmen, had gathered here, and the gap in the defense line could not be defended.

(End of this chapter)